SWATHIKA SENTHILKUMAR

Louisville ***** acvmmi@r.postjobfree.com www.linkedin.com/pub/swathika-thangaraju/51/3b5/912 609-***-****

A talented Procurement/Inventory professional skilled in data Analysis, Vendor Management, Client Support and Business Analyst.

Over Seven plus Years of experience in Manufacturing Industry as Self-directed Purchasing/Inventory specialist bringing demonstrated success in supply chain management.

Adapt at working with both internal and external clients to gather their requirements and ensure results are as desired

Unsurpassed problem solving, planning, developing, tracking and presenting metrics and tools connecting different business systems and ad-hoc reports.

Dedicated to maximizing efficiency and cost-effectiveness in all areas.

Hardworking, detail oriented, able to multitask.

Microsoft Word, PowerPoint.

Advance Excel knowledge performing Vlook up Pivot, Charts and Graphs.

SAP ERP Functional User.

MS Outlook.

Certified in Seven Habits of Highly Effective People.

Worked in SYNCRO and Qlikview report on Inventory.

As Project Lead Achievements

“War Room Activity” – Munich Germany. Worked on global critical supplies of MOSFET with NSN top level management team, on shortage simulation report, prioritizing critical parts and generated a recovery plan to fulfil customer orders.

“ALP”- Project to reduce 30% DOS in NOKIA & Supplier Hub. Achieved reduction of €1.5million & 13 DOS for Chennai and Dongguan plant (Print & Packaging Materials).Involved a huge amount of data collection, validation and implementation of innovative ideas and process.

“Centralized Procurement Activity” – Manaus Brazil. Tasked with leading and coordinating knowledge and process transfer from planning, purchasing, scheduling, production and logistic team to Chennai procurement team.

“Inventory Reduction Project”- Lead a team of 5 with 8 manufacturing plants reduced €44 million for prints and pack materials. And individually contributed €13 million reduction from Chennai and Manaus plant.

“JIT”- Manually implemented just in time concept for local pack supplier resulting in a saving of 500 Pallet locations.

“COP”- Lead clean order pool management project and achieved material visibility of 95% from the level of 35%.

“Pallet Reduction”- RRD Supplier-‘10’. Initiated this project due to warehouse space constrains and achieved a saving 1500 pallet locations.

Professional Experience

Undergone Professional Business Analyst Training Nov’15’-’May’16’

Sue Shine United States

Business Analysis Techniques

Software Development Life Cycle

Requirements Analysis, Engineering Process Requirement deliverables

Understanding and Capturing Business Needs

Software Engineering Methods

UML Methodology and Use Cases

Deliverables of a BA.

Software Testing (Concepts, Methodologies, Process, Test Artifacts, etc)

IT Environment, Database and SQL

Industry Knowledge

Business Requirement Gathering Tools

Business Process Improvement

Modeling Data and Processes

Data Warehouse and BI

Project: Barclays Online Banking

Performed requirement analysis by gathering both functional and non functional requirements based on interactions with the Business process owners & stakeholders.

Complete SRS writing for Barclays Online Banking with Use Case, Activity Diagram and Requirement.

Formulated BRD (Business Requirement document) and FRD (Functional Requirements Document) with detailed specifications and workflow diagrams.

Awaited for My EAD and SSN May’15’-’Oct’15’

Material Coordinator (BUYER) Feb’14’-Oct’14’

NSN (NOKIA SOLUTIONS & NETWORKS) Chennai, INDIA

Nokia Networks is a recognized market leader in Customer Experience Management with a wide portfolio and knowhow across network and IT systems.

Assigned on-site at NSN manufacturing plant, to act as single point contact between internal planning team and local/overseas buyers.

To drive material availability on time, inventory reduction and monitoring on weekly basis, alert buyers on critical shortage and excess inventory, order confirmation, supply confirmation for quarter. Generate weekly management reports, monitor KPI, GRIR, and EOL.

Project Achievements: Inventory reduction €5 Million. IDOS reduced by 6 Days. Ensured 100% mandatory training completion by team. Block stock reduction by €98K. EOL liquidation €217K.

Availability Specialist Nov’09’-Feb’14’

NOKIA Chennai, INDIA

World’s leading mobile manufacturer for 15+ yrs. was the top supply chain in 2007 of Gartner. Most trusted brand of INDIA for a consecutive 3 yrs.

Tasked to handle global suppliers, manage customer driven demand planning, material allocation to global plants, optimizing inventory level with right Min/Max, vendor capacity assessment, stock analysis, global material planning for short term and long term.

Liaison between supplier's and business unit's to ensure scope of work, specifications of materials/products, pricing, terms and conditions, and delivery schedules are outlined and confirmed.

Performed sourcing, liaising and negotiating with new and existing suppliers to improve business

Created Purchase Requisitions and Purchase Orders in SAP necessary for the acquisition of materials and services.

Worked with finance and sales team throughout the procurement cycle to assist with forecasting and budgeting.

Initiated corrective actions on bad materials and maintained a vendor score card to measure vendor’s success or failures.

Promoted to manage mechanics supplier, lead COP project and identify process improvement opportunities and resolve complex situations.

Started an original “Induction” presentation to educate new recruits on basics procurement process and operation methodologies.

Got KODOS for successful depletion of EOL material by supporting off frame.

Lead plastic bin implementation project with 0 production loss achieved a desired dust level reduction in factory for touch model production.

Performed User Acceptance Test (UAT) for new changes in SAP MM module and successful implementation of SAP ECC6.0 version.

Involved in indirect purchasing of CMLA CD for mobile gaming software. And e sourcing using SYNCRO tool.

Sr. Analyst Jun’09’-Nov’09’

Flextronics Shared Services Chennai, INDIA

Is a strategic business unit of Flextronics and one of the most respected global providers of logistics and aftermarket services.

One of the first members in the new Centralized procurement activity started in 2009. Buyer for Milpitas site in US.

Tasked with sourcing activities like OPOR report download, update supplier responses, verify new buys for the week, place order, confirm delivery date, negotiate price, work on pull in & push outs, maintain PPV within limit, interact with US planner for shortages & unconfirmed orders, and, maintain data clearly on BAAN ERP.

Responsible for tracking and delivery of goods in association with the Delivery Management team

Performed purchasing in open market on spot PO ensuring the PPV is within limit.

Administered purchase requests for supplier bids, quotes and proposals, negotiated price with suppliers.

Managed 750 part codes and 20 overseas supplier with “0” Production loss.

Planning & Delivery Controller Jul’08’-Jun’09’

Foxconn India Pvt, Ltd Chennai, INDIA

Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd., trading as Foxconn Technology Group, is a Taiwanese multinational electronics contract manufacturing company. And world’s largest contract manufacturer by revenue.

Optimized production planning & scheduling considering plant capacity, raw material stock and L/T.

Tasked with generating weekly production plan, run master production schedule, create PO, PR, work order processing, conduct meeting with production, material & warehouse team & order confirmation to customer.

Achieved 100% On Time Delivery & 95% off frame Demand Supportability without compromise on Quality.

Sourcing Engineer Jun’07’-Jul’08’

Taggin Technologies Coimbatore, INDIA

Tasked with sourcing procurement of IT products such as desktops, network servers, telecom, office hardware, stationary, as well as solicited and analyzed multiple purchasing proposals.

Administered Client data base, Customer Satisfaction survey, Employees personal data and their performances.

EDUCATION

Master of Science in Manufacturing Management

Birla Institute of Technology & Science Pillani, india

First Class with 7.64 CGP 2009-2011

Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics & Communication Engineering

Tamilnadu College of Engineering Coimbatore, india

First Class with 75% 2003-2007

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